Caldwell Night Rodeo

On August 14, 2012 our family spent the night at the Caldwell Rodeo! It was an awesome night. We started the night off with some yummy food. We supported the Rotary Club and bought some pulled pork and nachos. Connor really went to town on the Nachos!

 

It was a really HOT night! 

 

They YMCA had a fun kid roundup activity before the Rodeo. 

I thought Connor's face was hilarious in this picture!

 

Lilian is getting sick of me dressing her up and taking cute pictures. It was a fight for me to do her hair cute. This was her look when I told her to smile cute! What a stink!

Look closely at Makenzie's feet. Do you see those sores? This is the healing stage of what we found out is Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease. Connor, Lilian and Makenzie all got the disease. Poor babes. We picked it up from a family from church... We had it unknowingly and unfortunately continued to spread it! Sorry Ellie!!

The kids enjoyed the little train ride.

We thought the kids were going to enjoy the Rodeo more, but they didnt! They were more interested in the food being sold. Maybe next year!

 

Enjoying Summer in Caldwell, Idaho

August 13, 2012 was exactly one month since we moved into our new home in Caldwell. We spent the day outside enjoying the cooler temperatures. July was so hot here in Idaho. Our family has been so busy settling in that I really enjoyed this day outside. We had a picnic lunch, played in the pool and had a blast!


Lilian turns 6 next month! She is nervous, but excited to start Kindergarten next Tuesday. She has dearly missed her friends and preschool teacher from Grants Pass. I am anxious for her to start in hopes that she makes some new friends. She is my social bug!

Connor will be 4 in October. He cant wait to have his birthday. I started a co-op with two other great moms here in Caldwell for the upcoming school year. Connor is excited to have a preschool with his new friends. Lately Connor is full of questions. He questions everything. He wants to know they why, and hows, when and where of everything. Today he asked if I lived in Heaven with Heavenly Father when I was a baby like he did!!

I think my three small children have outgrown our small pool.

My two sweet girls!

Makenzie is 10 months!! When we moved here Makenzie had no teeth. Now she has six!! She has her top four and her bottom two. 

 

 

Harvest time for the Lettuce!

We started our small garden in Grants Pass. We planted two tomato plants, a pumpkin seed, watermelon seed, herbs, peas and a bunch of lettuce. We moved all of them! The only plant that didn't make it were our peas. Once we transplanted them into our little garden area at our new home they grew like crazy!! I wish we were here earlier to do much more. Last Friday we harvested our lettuce. The kids loved working in the garden.



Connor loves to go out and eat the lettuce, herbs and tomatoes.

 

 

Lily loves that the pumpkin is getting so big!! Her poor watermelon has died.

 

 

Makenzie watched her brother and sister pick the lettuce.

 

 

Caldwell Rodeo BULL

With Caldwell Night Rodeo fast approaching, local business are decorating wooden bulls to get residents in the mood for some rodeo fun! Dr. Jaron Soren has his bull displayed in front of his office 309 E. Logan St. Organized by the Caldwe

ll Chamber of Commerce, the Tour of the Bulls involves 114 wooden bulls, which Caldwell businesses bought and decorated in an array of styles. The best-decorated bulls will win prizes for their businesses. Cast your vote by emailing info@caldwellchamber.org or go to the Caldwell Facebook page!

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!!!! It would be awesome if Jaron placed, so please VOTE!!!!

Balance Point Chiropractic

We are starting a labor of love! Jaron is working hard marketing for his business Balance Point Chiropractic.  His sister Janel helped with the logo. We love it! Check out his website at www.balancepointchiro.com   It is a working process but we are excited with how far we have come.

 

 

Makenzie-9 months

On July 19, 2012 Makenzie turned 9 months. She is a very busy baby! The second week in Idaho, Makenzie was teething. I thought she was just cutting her first bottom left tooth. Well a week later I noticed that she had in fact cut her top right as well. No wonder she was so miserable all week! So now she has two teeth coming in. She loves to be out and about. She also loves watching her brother and sister play. She claps her hands when she gets excited.




She also squints her nose like this! It is my favorite face!! She crawls everywhere and picks up any little piece off of the ground. 

She is such a sweet heart. She loves mommy most of all! She waves bye bye with her little hand. Very cute! 

Hard to believe that 9 months have all ready passed. Why does the 9 months of pregnancy last so much longer than the first 9 months of there life?!

 

Our new house!

We're just renting, but this is our new house for the time being. We love it! We were irratated at first because the home was suppose to be ready for us and it was NOT!! The owner lives out of state and supposedly had family members clean it. Well it was not taken care of so a property management company took over. Everything was taken care of within a few days, just a pain to deal with. We are also in construction zone. Three homes are currently being built. And we still have a huge empty lot to the right and left of our house.


 

Pioneer Day at Stake Center

On July 21, 2012 our stake had a pioneer day activity. It was a lot of fun. The even was well planned out with tons of great activities for the kids. They enjoyed a petting zoo, pinata, pony ride, taffy making, story telling, butter making, ice cream cones and so much more!



Bummer that Connor's eyes are closed, but cute family photo!

 

Makenzie's first pony ride!! Just turned 9 months!

 

 

 

 

 

Boise Zoo with Grandma Soren!

On July 19, 2012 Grandma Soren took the kids and I to the Boise Zoo. The kids had a blast! It was so nice to go out and enjoy everything that the Zoo had to offer.

The Giraffe slide was a hit! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We told them to lay an egg, Lily was a little embarrassed. 

 

Grandma took us to the butterfly exhibit. It was so neat! The butterflies kept landing on Makenzie. Luckily she was oblivious to it. I was afraid she would grab them and squish them. 

 

They even landed on me! It was way cool!

 

 

It was a wonderful day with Grandma at the Zoo!